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" Hereafter insueth th' accomjit of all 

 soehe monies I have Layed forth for 

 my Ladies occasions sios the 22"* 

 of Auguste 1609." 



From Whitehall. 



" Tuesday 22. Imprimis given this daye ai the garden gate at Whitehall to the 

 1609. poore as m,y Ladie tooke hir coache to come into countrie 3°. 4''." 



St. Alban^s. 



"She supped and slept. Soper, £2. 8. 6. Breakfast 2. 11. 10. 

 Horse-mete for 20 horses £2. 2. 6. hostelers 2. Musitions 

 10/- poor at the gates 10/- ringers 10/- chamblens 5/ My 

 La: Arrondale's * coatchman 1. 0. 0. A trompeter 2/6. Th& 

 poore on the way back to St. Alban's and Toddingtoa 4/11 " 



TODDINGTON, NEAE DuNSTABlE Co. BeDS. 



[This house had belonged to Lord Cheney, who died in 1587. His 

 estate devolved to his wife, a daughter of Thomas, Lord Went- 

 worth of Nettlestead, and was inherited by her relatives. In 

 1608 Toddington had been visited by King James I. {Lysom's. 

 Bed/., p. 14S.)] 



" At Tuddington. 



Friday 25'" Given among the oiBcers in my ladie Cheynee's howse. Imprimis 



Aug. to the clarke of the kytchen 1. 0. 0. 2 cooks 1. 0. 0. 2 boyes in 



1609. the kytchen 5/. 2 in the scullery 5/. The Butler 10/. His boy 



2/6. The pantler 10/. Yeoman of the wine-cellar 10/. Porter 10/. 



Groomes of the great chamber 1. 0. 0. Groomes man of the chamber 



5/. Landry woman 10/. The baker 10/. To a woman wayted on 



the chamber 10/. Groom of the stable 10/.*^' 



Northampton. 



" Sat. 26'^ At Northampton. To Sir James Croft's footman that came with my 

 Lady from Toddington to Northampton ] 0/. Given to the boy at 

 Northampton that made y' speeche before the Kinge 10/." 



Prestwould. (2 7th August ) 



[Near Loughboroughj Co. Leicester ; then the seat of Sir William 



Skipwith.] 

 " Mon. 28"^. P*. S'. Wm's coachman for bringing my Lady to Nottingham 1. 0. 0." 



• Lady Arrondale. This was Alethea Talbot, daughter of Gilbert, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury 

 and cousin to Lady Arabella Stuart. 



